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There is this one pop singer, who recently became the biggest thing since television. She's beautiful and came out of nowhere all of the sudden. Oh, and her voice is so wonderful and clear and great and, and, and...Ah, let's just listen to her new single! ...Oh wait, how come I'm so tired suddenly? Why are the words "[[Mass Hypnosis|OBEY ME]]" stuck in my head? I don't remem...
Congratulations, you encountered the '''Evil Diva'''! With her magical voice, microphone, instrument, etc, the Evil Diva becomes a rising star and draws all of the world's attention to herself and her "talent". Her songs may seem better to you than they actually are, hypnotizing you, turning you into [[The Heartless]], stealing your soul, or the like. She's also always female and usually a poster-child example of [[Evil Is Sexy]]. She's a subtrope of the [[Idol Singer]] and may or may not overlap with the [[Dark Magical Girl]]. As such, she has a tendency to pull a [[Heel Face Turn]].
[[The Hero]] may or may not be immune to the effects of her music. His/Her [[Sidekick
Not to be confused with the
{{examples|Examples:}}▼
== Anime and Manga ==
* [[Virtual Celebrity|Sharon Apple]] from ''[[Macross Plus]]''
* Utau Hoshina from ''[[Shugo Chara]]'' rips out the Egg of Dreams from the hearts of her fans. {{spoiler|Until she has her [[Heel Face Turn]], that is.}}
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** In the [[Manga]] of ''[[Sailor Moon]]'', Mimete of the Witches 5 is an idol and uses her music as a method of brainwashing. It's pretty apt that her counterpart Senshi is wannabe idol Sailor Venus.
*** In the anime, Mimete's a wannabe idol instead of an actual one. She eventually ends up on television. [[Fate Worse Than Death|Forever]].
* [[Exactly What It Says
** The term is ''Chiropteran''; a chiropteran is created by a human ingesting a chemical substance made by the series' ''[[Nebulous Evil Organisation]]''. This is almost a subversion, as Diva's voice is "merely" used to ''activate'' the evil component in people who ingested it (ice cream bars handed out at an air force base during a tour segment of Diva, as a test case, followed by a '''world-wide''' distribution of the chemical, it being included in dozens of popular and generic food items).
* Aya Asia from ''[[Majin Tantei Nougami Neuro]]''. She's not exactly evil, but she can blow your brain with her song.
* Misa Amane from ''[[
** She does get to sing in the anime, but that may have something to do with her being voiced by [[Aya Hirano]]...
* ''[[Megazone 23]]'''s Eve was a not-so-evil version of this; she was the [[Virtual Celebrity]] public face of the master computer that maintained the [[Masquerade]] for the titular [[City in
* Lunar of [[Seto no Hanayome]]. She's not straight up ''evil'', per se, but she certainly acts like a bitch most of the time.
* ''[[
* Corona from [[Kannazuki no Miko]], who joins the Orochi after she loses her fame.
* Siren in ''[[
== Comic Books ==
* One of [[
▲* One of [[Empowered (Comic Book)|Adam Warren]]'s ''[[Gen 13]]'' stories had a twist on this: although the song "Happy to Be Happy" caused most of the effects of this trope, it turns out that the singer wasn't responsible. The song itself was a hyper-advanced [[Ear Worm]] that was trying to spread itself to gain extra brainpower.
* In ''[[The Escapist]],'' the eponymous jazz saxophonist in "The Siren Song of Circe O'Shaughnessy" makes her listeners commit burglaries for her.
* The [[Warren Ellis]] comic ''[[Superidol]]'' is all about a [[Vocaloid]]-esque Japanese [[Idol Singer]] named Rei Rei, who becomes an international obsession. So many people want to be like her that they get surgery to look like her and act like her regardless of gender, slowly leading to an [[
* [[Spider-Man]] has the D-List villain, The Hypno-Hustler.
* ''[[
== Film ==
* The titular characters in the ''[[Josie and
▲* The titular characters in the ''[[Josie and The Pussycats (Film)|Josie and The Pussycats]]'' movie become like this, albeit unwittingly. Josie herself winds up getting [[Brainwashed]] with [[Subliminal Seduction|subliminal messages]] in order to turn her into a bitchy diva who will break up the band and pursue a solo career (the record company was getting annoyed with Melody and Valerie, and felt that Josie could sell more records on her own). A more conventionally evil example would be Fiona, the diva-ish CEO of MegaRecords, who, while not a singer herself, was the one responsible for putting subliminal messages into her label's music in order to [[Subliminal Advertising|sell consumer products to teenagers]]. {{spoiler|Her ''real'' goal, however, was to use the messages to get people to like her and look up to her as a fashion idol, having never gotten over the brutal humiliation she suffered in high school for her bad teeth and her lisp.}}
* [[Hot Witch]] Alisa in the movie adaptation of ''[[Night Watch]]''. She's played by Russian pop star Zhanna Friske, by the way.
== Live
* The would-be assassin in the first episode of ''[[Merlin (TV series)|Merlin]]''. The singer was a disguise, a glamor, but she still put everyone into a coma-type thing so she could kill Uther and Arthur and only failed due to Merlin's intervention.▼
▲* The would-be assassin in the first episode of ''[[Merlin (TV)|Merlin]]''. The singer was a disguise, a glamor, but she still put everyone into a coma-type thing so she could kill Uther and Arthur and only failed due to Merlin's intervention.
== Music ==
* Judging by [[Lady Gaga
** Although [[
▲* Judging by [[Lady Gaga (Music)/WMG|her WMG page]], this wiki seems to have come to the conclusion that [[Lady Gaga]] is a [[Real Life]] version of this trope.
▲** Although [[Kesha|Ke$ha]] gives her a run for her money. She really does try to at least make evil sexy! Or, more like using empty temptations of sexiness to get people to abandon [[The Beatles|perfectly]] [[Elton John|good]] [[Kanye West|musicians]] [[Money Dear Boy|just so she can make money is evil.]] Same difference.
== Tabletop Games ==
* One of the many suggested plots in ''[[Mutants and Masterminds]]''.
* Evil bards in ''[[Dungeons
* Also a common occurrence among Abyssals in ''[[Exalted]]''. Or [[Alternate Character Interpretation|Solars]].
== Video Games ==
* Lord Raptor from ''[[
* Courtney Gears from ''[[Ratchet and Clank]]'' could mind control fellow robots with her songs, though the [[Crush! Kill! Destroy!]] theming was fairly obvious.▼
▲* Lord Raptor from ''[[Darkstalkers (Video Game)|Darkstalkers]]'', at least in the backstory, was a male instance of this. The OVA series even includes a scene where he delivers another performance merely to suck up everyone's souls.
▲* Courtney Gears from ''[[Ratchet and Clank]]'' could mind control fellow robots with her songs, though the [[Crush Kill Destroy]] theming was fairly obvious.
▲{{quote| '''Courtney:''' This goes out to all you robots 'cross the galaxy:<br />
▲It's time for you and me to rise up and strike back!<br />
▲Won't stop until we dominate, won't you feel great<br />
When we exterminate, all or-gan-ic life! }}
* ''[[Emo Game]] 2'' has, as its main villains, The Friends Theory, a band formed by the cast of ''[[Friends]]'' that uses the power of [[MTV]] and [[Subliminal Seduction]] to turn America into a nation of soulless, corporate, yuppie zombies.
* [[The Ditz|Linda]] from ''[[Okage]]'' ends up doing this, albeit accidentally. She hypnotized the entire city of Madril into loving her singing, not aware that she had somehow absorbed some of [[Harmless Villain|Evil King Stan's]] magic power. {{spoiler|Upon finding out what she was doing, she runs off to her dungeon and fights the party because she thinks it is training from her "Coach", Stan. Upon her defeat, the power goes back to Stan, and she cheerfully joins the party.}}
* [[One
== Western Animation ==
* As seen in the picture above, we have Ember from ''[[Danny Phantom]]''.
** [[Say My Name|EMBER MCLAIN]], to be precise.
* Experiment 624: Angel from ''[[Lilo
* Tiffany Javelins, a.k.a. the Sinister Songstress, was this in her first appearance (before her [[Heel Face Turn]]) in ''[[Teamo Supremo]]''.
* Ricky Mathis from ''[[Totally Spies!]]'' is an unwitting male example, being manipulated by someone who has world conquest as his goal.
*
* One episode of
* Pizzazz from ''[[Jem]]'' qualifies. Vain and egotistical, she wants the whole world to know who she is and half the songs the Misfits sing are either about how great she is or what a bitch she is. Arguably, though, Pizzazz is something of a deconstruction, as her desire for fame stems from a largely loveless childhood and a father who spoiled her rotten.
{{reflist}}
[[Category:Evil Is Sexy]]
[[Category:Always Female]]▼
[[Category:Magic and Powers]]
[[Category:This Index Is a Bitch]]
[[Category:Villains]]
▲[[Category:Evil Diva]]
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